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More than a decade after being indicted for allegedly being in possession of possessing child sexual abuse material, a 51-year-old Lynn man was arrested in the Dominican Republic on Friday, said the U.S. Attorney’s office for Massachusetts. Melchor Datu, who is originally from the Philippines, was arrested in a joint effort between special agents and…
By Brian Gawley Olympic Peninsula News Group PORT ANGELES — Human trafficking is a problem even on the North Olympic Peninsula, but it doesn’t look like what most people think it looks like, said Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Nichols. Nichols spoke at Peninsula College’s Studium Generale on Thursday, saying January is National Human Trafficking…
Trenton, we have a sex trafficking and slave problem. In the Summer of 2022, rumors spread through Trenton that young Latina women were being snatched off local streets and pressed into the city’s sex trade business. Lured into houses and expecting a “party”, some girls ended up as the party. While those stories persisted, New…
As crimes involving forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation continue to grow nationwide, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced a new unit within the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) that will focus exclusively on investigating and prosecuting these types of human trafficking crimes in New Jersey. The newly established Human Trafficking Unit will spearhead…
YONKERS, NY — Lawrence Grecco, aka Larry Ray, learned his fate on Friday, weeks after being convicted of unspeakable crimes against his daughter’s college friends. Ray, who was convicted in April of extortion, and forcing students he met at his daughter’s on-campus housing at Sarah Lawrence College into slave labor and prostitution, was sentenced to…
Vulnerable children in East Tennessee are being targeted by traffickers seeking to get them to perform free labor or sex for profit, according to Lisa Bolton of the Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking (CCAHT). She spoke online recently to the Women’s Interfaith Dialogue of Oak Ridge. Offering various real-life scenarios during her online presentation, Bolton…
A year ago, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams announced the creation of a human trafficking task force to fight commercial sex exploitation. And in that year, the task force made more than two-dozen arrests, focusing almost exclusively on men who buy sex. In the task force’s first sting, more than 100 people responded to…
The liver donation plan was found to violate South Korea’s organ transplant act, a court found. A Korean woman who planned to donate part of her liver in exchange for a job for her son was fined. A nurse became suspicious of the woman and reported her to authorities, The Hankyoreh reported. She asked a…
Hundreds of thousands of incarcerated people work in US prisons as part of their sentences, often without basic protections and for little to no pay For more than two decades imprisoned in California, Samual Brown worked more than a dozen different jobs and was transferred between penitentiaries throughout the state – earning less than a…
Two downstate men potentially face long prison sentences from an array of human trafficking charges after a juvenile member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe was found in their car on May 20. The child, who was at the time identified as an Endangered Missing Juvenile, has since been reunited with her family. Steffan Alexander…
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